Last month, Alicia Schmidt Camacho won the 2009 Lora Romero Book Award of the American Studies Association for her book Migrant Imaginaries. The prize consists of a lifetime membership in the ASA and is awarded every year for the best-published first book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation. The prize honors Lora Romero, who was a valued and long-active member of the American Studies Association, former Assistant Professor at Stanford University, and author of Home Fronts: Nineteenth Century Domesticity and Its Critics (1997).
